A dark comedy about a burned-out telemarketer. During a call with a customer, he must succeed in selling to save the life of his niece.
Feature | 12 min | Director: Sara Dutta | Country: Sweden | Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English
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A Mother’s Body
A Mother’s Body is an intimate portrayal of two female hotel cleaners from a daughter’s perspective. While the women perform their daily work, the daughter reflects on how their profession affects their bodies and relationship to time. Meanwhile, the women navigate and negotiate the demands of the strenuous labour with experience, preciseness, and beauty.
Documentary | 8 min | Director: Jonelle Twum | Country: Sweden | Language: Swedish | Subtitles: English
American Made: Union Built
A powerful and triumphant look at the union labor movement in New York City, with a focus on construction workers and the Count Me In movement.
Documentary | 22 min | Director: Jacinta Filiaci, Spencer Santini & Jordan Valdes | Country: USA | Language: English, Spanish | Subtitles: English
Francis
Francis and nine other west Africans travel to Sweden to work as tree planters. They hope to be able to earn money for their families. Upon finally arriving they get stuck, but Francis refuses to accept the situation.
Feature | 31 min | Director: Ahmed Abdullahi | Country: Sweden | Language: English | Subtitles: Swedish
Pink Rider
An intimate and personal reflection on working conditions in the 21st century, seen through the eyes of a bike courier. From nostalgia to frustration accompanied by Swedish punk, this film deepens our understanding of the plight of all workers in the so-called gig economy.
Documentary | 12 min | Director: Daniel Aguirre | Country: Sweden | Language: Spanish | Subtitles: English
Company Town
When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery, can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Lola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter, in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them – and as their former corporate bosses strategize how to implode this unexpected movement – Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.
Film info: Drama | 109 min | Director: Robert Jury | Country: USA | Language: English | Subtitles: Swedish
El Empleo
Email: donna.golden@mac.com
Film’s Website: https://vimeo.com/32966847
Film’s Director(s): Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso
Film’s Release Date: 2008
Brief Film Description/Blurb: Animated short film: literal and metaphorical representations of work.
American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Distributed by First Run Features and available on Amazon and iTunes.
In Search Of Professor Precarious
Canadian doc feature that uncovers higher education’s dirty little secret, taking us inside the moving stories of precarious contract professors and examining the issues of precarity and systemic exploitation on campus.
The film is 81 minutes long. We are now working on a shorter version, under 50 minutes, for film festivals with time limitations and for possible broadcast.
Gerry Potter
gerrypotter7@gmail.com
The Big Meeting
Documentary about the annual Durham Miners Gala.
Trailer can be viewed here https://www.galafilm.co.uk/about
“Every second Saturday in July the city of Durham is taken over by miners, trade-unions and the public for an event known locally as ‘The Big Meeting’. The Durham Miners’ Gala is an annual celebration of noise, colour and solidarity, of class culture, creativity and endeavour. Attracting 200,000 people, banners and brass bands parade through the streets to honour their heritage. The Big Meeting reflects the past, present and future of the Gala and labour movement, whilst following four protagonists over the course of this impressive working- class occasion.”
Durham Miners’ Association
Ross Forbes
rossalexforbes@gmail.com
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